[lwip-devel] [bug #43437] Memory corruption beyound memory pool

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                 Summary: Memory corruption beyound memory pool
                 Project: lwIP - A Lightweight TCP/IP stack
            Submitted by: michcior
            Submitted on: Sat 18 Oct 2014 07:12:23 PM GMT
                Category: pbufs
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Crash Error
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: 
            lwIP version: 1.4.1

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Details:

In the mem_init (mem.c) The code assigns to "ram_end" the top of the pool.
Then, if the pool was declared without spare bytes, the following instructions
corrupt memory, which is located just after memory pool.

  ram_end = (struct mem *)(void *)&ram[MEM_SIZE_ALIGNED];
  ram_end->used = 1;
  ram_end->next = MEM_SIZE_ALIGNED;
  ram_end->prev = MEM_SIZE_ALIGNED;





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